Posted on 02/18/2008 11:35:01 PM PST by Kurt Evans
Temper, temper.
Republican John McCain is known for his.
He's been dubbed "Senator Hothead" by more than one publication, but he's also had some success extracting his hatchet from several foreheads.
Even his Republican Senate colleagues are not spared his sharp tongue.
"F--- you," he shouted at Texas Sen. John Cornyn last year.
"Only an a------ would put together a budget like this," he told the former Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999.
"I'm calling you a f------ jerk!" he once retorted to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
With Cornyn, he smoothed things over quickly. The two argued during a meeting on immigration legislation; Cornyn complained that McCain seemed to parachute in during the final stages of negotiations. "F--- you. I know more about this than anyone else in the room," McCain reportedly shouted.
Cornyn chuckled at the memory of what he called McCain's "aggressive expressions of differences." The Texan has endorsed McCain.
"He almost immediately apologized to me," Cornyn said last week. "I accepted his apology, and as far as I'm concerned, we've moved on down the road."
The political landscape in Arizona, McCain's home state, is littered with those who have incurred his wrath. Former Gov. Jane Hull pretended to hold a telephone receiver away from her ear to demonstrate a typical outburst from McCain in a 1999 interview with The New York Times.
McCain has even blown up at volunteers and, on occasion, the average Joe.
He often pokes fun at his reputation: "Thanks for the question, you little jerk," he said last year to a New Hampshire high school student wondering if McCain, at 71, was too old to be president.
Other times, his ire is all too real. This has prompted questions about whether his temperament is suited to the office of commander-in-chief or whether it might handicap him in a presidential campaign against either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, who are not known for such outbursts.
"I decided I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger," Domenici told Newsweek in 2000.
His irascibility fits with McCain's proud image as a straight talker willing to say what people don't want to hear.
Yet McCain's temper hinders his efforts to make peace with his critics and rally Republicans behind his candidacy for president. That could be a big problem, because his most persistent foes - conservative radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson - talk to tens of millions of people each day.
McCain and his advisers insist the acrimony is about matters of policy: "We have disagreements on specific issues from time to time," McCain recently said of his critics.
In fact, the disputes often are as much about style as they are about substance.
McCain's tone was certainly on Dobson's mind when he issued a stinging anti-endorsement on Super Tuesday. He mentioned various issues, but Dobson also said the senator "has a legendary temper and often uses foul and obscene language."
Privately, some conservatives grouse that McCain can seem more convivial toward his liberal colleagues. Just last week, McCain had an animated conversation and shared a belly laugh with liberal Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, his partner on controversial immigration reforms, on the Senate floor.
And then there is his choice of words - not just the expletives, but also the use of dismissive phrases such as "agents of intolerance" to describe televangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell during the 2000 presidential campaign.
Personally, as much as I don’t like his behavior, I don’t think there is any “there” there.
These stories run, and there’s not much of a ruckus about them, except here.
Libs are much worse than that.
Though, libs could be saving it for later.
JMO
I disagree. Cornyn had protested McCains inclusion of proven gangmembers into his Amnesty and he gets told F--- you!
The "there" is McCain is insane.
That McCain can be a nasty person, is not news. He only compromises with liberals like Teddy “The Swimmer” Kennedy, so no matter who is elected you can count on Amnesty. It is coming, the American electorate just isn’t smart enough to have figure that out yet. They know it in Mexico though and you can make bank that they are going to do whatever they can to get here and be a part of it.
Posting anti-McCain stories will not get me to vote for your fake preacher, Huckabee.
Here is how George Washington’s temper has been described:
Excerpted from:
http://www.factmonster.com/t/history/true-washington/temper.html
WASHINGTON’S TEMPER
“There can be no doubt that Washington had a high temper. Hamilton’s allusion to his not being remarkable for “good temper” has already been quoted, as has also Stuart’s remark that “all his features were indicative of the strongest and most ungovernable passions, and had he been born in the forests, he would have been the fiercest man among the savage tribes.” Again Stuart is quoted by his daughter as follows:
“While talking one day with General Lee, my father happened to remark that Washington had a tremendous temper, but held it under wonderful control. General Lee breakfasted with the President and Mrs. Washington a few days afterwards.
“’I saw your portrait the other day,’ said the General, ‘but Stuart says you have a tremendous temper.’
“’Upon my word,’ said Mrs. Washington, coloring, ‘Mr. Stuart takes a great deal upon himself to make such a remark.’
“’But stay, my dear lady,’ said General Lee, ‘he added that the president had it under wonderful control.’
“With something like a smile, General Washington remarked, ‘He is right.’”
Lear, too, mentions an outburst of temper when he heard of the defeat of St. Clair, and elsewhere records that in reading politics aloud to Washington “he appeared much affected, and spoke with some degree of asperity on the subject, which I endeavored to moderate, as I always did on such occasions.” How he swore at Randolph and at Freneau is mentioned elsewhere. Jefferson is evidence that “his temper was naturally irritable and high-toned, but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and habitual ascendency over it. If however it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his wrath.”
Yup!..and I'll be damned if I'm gonna vote for anyone for it!
As I said, it is abhorable behaviour.
But, it’s been in the media for some time.
I’m sorry to say that we might be the only ones who care.
I hope that’s not the case
One problem among many.
“... Washington had a tremendous temper, but held it under wonderful control.”
And there’s the difference.
“To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
— George Washington
“Direct my thoughts, words, and work daily more and more into the likeness of Thy Son, Jesus Christ.”
— George Washington
“It is impossible to rightly govern without God and the Bible.”
— George Washington
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy.”
— George Washington
“If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God.”
— George Washington
“Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
— George Washington
http://wasearch.loc.gov/e22k/20021021073026/http://kurtevans.com/ff.html
Maybe McCain should just scream and throw ashtrays.
Or perhaps this is just some of that liberal and moderate support that we have been told to expect.
Remember the Barry Goldwater commercial the Dems ran with the little girl and the mushroom cloud?
With McCain, it’s all too real. People are really going to be wondering if we want someone with a temper like that near THE BUTTON.
John McCain has an adopted “black” skinned daughter who Mother Theresa asked he and his wife to adopt.
In 1991, Cindy McCain brought an abandoned three-month old girl, who badly needed medical treatment for a severe cleft palate, to the U.S. from a Bangladeshi orphanage run by Mother Teresa;[99] the McCains decided to adopt her, and named her Bridget.[100]
Sources
1. Wikipedia
2. Dadmag - here
http://www.dadmag.com/archive/060400jmccain.php
3. Paul Alexander, Man of the People: The Life of John McCain. John Wiley & Sons, p.147.
“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” — Matthew 25:40 (KJV)
Yahoo, M-cubed! You said it for me and those of us on the anti-Invasion right.
Poor Kurt! Don’t you realize that Huckabee cannot win a Northern state and that Hunter can’t even carry his own CA? Besides, Huckabee cannot possibly win the nomination, so it’s all a wet dream (not mine)...
Mr. Evans:
I am not trying to argue with you, just provide information. Here’s another piece of information:
President George Washington had black slaves; Senator John McCain has an adopted black daughter.
“Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” — Matthew 7:21
>>McCain’s own hot temper may be his worst enemy<<
I would think it was #3 behind his stands on illegal immigration and free speech.
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